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“Cher Ami”- Taken From 1919 Signal Corps Report

Record Group 111: Records of the Office of the Chief Signal OfficerSeries: Photographs of American Military Activities

PHOTOGRAPHIC MOUNTING CARD

NUMBER 93245 SYMBOL

PHOTOGRAPHER

REC’D TAKEN

DESCRIPTION:

Cher Ami" - Taken form 1919 S.C. Report.

“Pre-eminent was the work performed by a pigeon on the afternoon of October 21. Liberated at Grand Pre at 2:35 p.m., with an important message, during intense machine gun and artillery action, the bird delivered its message to the loft at Ramport, a distance of 40 kilometers, in 25 minutes. Upon examination, it was found that one leg had been amputated and that the breast had been pierced by a machine gun bullet. The message tube, intact, was hanging by a ligament of the torn leg”.

“Cher Ami died shortly after being returned to this county and is in the National Museum.”

Source: catalog.archives.gov

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